AI, ML, Robots and Brains (11.1. - 17.1.2021)

Society

Computer scientists: We wouldn't be able to control super intelligent machines

FTC settlement with Ever orders data and AIs deleted after facial recognition pivot

When AI is used to set prices, can inadvertent collusion be a result?

These five AI developments will shape 2021 and beyond

Algorithms

Human AI nabs $3.2M seed to build personal intelligence platform

A 'virtual human' presented some of LG's CES event

Breaking down the AI wizardry of 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'

Tweaking AI software to function like a human brain improves computer's learning ability

Artificial Intelligence beats us in chess, but not in memory

Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

Artificial intelligence puts focus on the life of insects

Researchers speed up analysis of Arctic ice and snow data through AI

Machine learning accelerates discovery of materials for use in industrial processes

Using neural networks for faster X-ray imaging

Health

Potential jurors favor use of artificial intelligence in precision medicine

Deep learning outperforms standard machine learning in biomedical research applications

UCI researchers use deep learning to identify gene regulation at single-cell level

AIs that read sentences are now catching coronavirus mutations

Faeces and algorithms: Artificial Intelligence to map our intestinal bacteria

Facebook and NYU trained an AI to estimate COVID outcomes

Robots

Columbia engineers built basic empathy into a robot

Cadillac wants to fly people in electric drones

Sony shows off its Airpeak filmmaking drone for the first time

How to keep drones flying when a motor fails

FAA approves first commercial drone flights with no on-site pilots

The FAA has given approval for commercial drones to fly over people. It means autonomous deliveries by companies like Amazon are one step closer to reality

Saildrone launches a 72-foot autonomous seabed-mapping boat

Taking the lab into the ocean: A fleet of robots tracks and monitors microbial communities

Volvo’s self-docking boat tech is now a reality

A robot made of ice could adapt and repair itself on other worlds

Uber planning to spin out Postmates' delivery robot arm

UBTech launches UV light disinfecting robots

Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish

Bioinspired acousto-magnetic microswarm robots with upstream motility

In new Skoltech research, 'e-nose' and computer vision help cook the perfect chicken

Cars

Aptiv brings semi-autonomous tech to more affordable cars

Tesla dials in on FSD improvements with 'millimeter-wave radar sensor' filing

The world's youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is 'doomed'

Indy has selected the AI-powered cars for its autonomous challenge race

Mobileye is bringing its autonomous vehicle test fleets to at least four more cities in 2021

Hardware

Team creates hybrid chips with processors and memory to run AI on battery-powered devices

Accelerating AI computing to the speed of light

Using light to revolutionize artificial intelligence

Brains

Birds that play with others have the biggest brains—and the same may go for humans

Why independent cultures think alike when it comes to categories: It's not in the brain

Imagining a face reactivates face-detecting neurons in humans

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that encodes timing of events

How the brain paralyzes you while you sleep

Disagreeing takes up a lot of brain real estate

Master designers: Architects of the brain revealed

Revisiting the Global Workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organisation of the human brain

Turbulent dynamics in the human brain could revolutionize the understanding of its functionality